California Demand Responsive Infrastructure

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In "Dynamic Pricing, Advanced Metering, and Demand Response in Electricity Markets", Borenstein, Jaske, and Rosenfeld presented a vision of an infrastructure that will enable cost effective implementation of demand response programs in the 21st century and articulated the benefits it will provide to our society. The Demand Response Infrastructure (DRI) will have a profound effect on the State of California by making energy and value added services readily available to all Californians at affordable prices and balancing that with sound environmental policy and the need to effectively manage California’s power delivery system.

This vision leads to the following premise:

1. Demand Response (DR) will become a major resource to deal with California’s future electricity problems,
2. an advanced metering infrastructure will be deployed on a large scale throughout the state,
3. price signals will be used to induce load response when contingencies and market imbalances exist, and
4. technology will act as a proxy for end users.

If the premise is true, then information exchange will be required between several organizations and systems and numerous applications that create and consume information will exist. This leads to the need to develop a conceptual model for describing information flows necessary to support demand response applications related applications.

Documents:

• Control and Communications Integration Project Mapping
• CEC PIER Reference Design Report
• CEC PIER AMI and Demand Response Research Summary Report
• GridWise Architecture Council Constitution
• Ron Hofmann's PCT Workshop presentation
• Mazi's PCT Workshop presentation

Links:

• Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program
• California Energy Commission Demand Response
• PIER Demand Response Research Center
• CIEE PIER Demand Response Enabling Technology Development
• United States Demand Response Coordinating Committee
• International Energy Agency Demand Response Activities
• Things We Know

This site is operated by EnerNex Corporation and contains information related to implementing demand responsive infrastructure in California. EnerNex is involved in several projects in California and elsewhere where coordination and information sharing is required. These projects include:

• Southern California Edison Advanced Metering Project
• California Energy Commission Reference Design Project
• OpenAMI - Open Standards for Advanced Metering and Demand Response
• EPRI IntelliGrid Architecture Project
• GridWise Architecture Council
• GridWise Constitutional Convention

For more information, please contact Erich W. Gunther at erich@enernex.com

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